Presented by Dr. Francisco Martin, Founder and CEO of Strands, the first keynote at the 3rd annual ACM Conference on Recommender Systems was delivered this morning and has been generating some buzz on Twitter.
The number of online services providing users with real-time recommendations has increased exponentially over the last few years. Recommender Systems that were [...]

We are pleased to invite you to participate in this first workshop on Recommender-based Industrial Applications, to be held on Sunday, October 25th, 2009 in New York City, USA, in conjunction with The 3rd ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (New York City, October 22-25, 2009).
Complete workshop schedule and details can be found here.
Recommender systems [...]

If you are in Europe and you are interested in recommendation technologies, Recked is for you.
Recked is an informal event for 100 engineers interested in recommender systems, organized by Wakoopa, the software and games discovery start-up, and Strands.
Held on January 26th in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Recked will focus on how to implement collaborative [...]

Since 2004, Strands has been focused on building recommendation technologies to help people discover things they might like. We have also spent a lot of time making sure these technologies could be easily installed by retail and media companies via our APIs or widgets.
We believe the future of the web is about personalization. And [...]

Gravity R&D, developer of an Instant personalized entertainment solution for TV, has been selected by the jury as Winner of the first edition of the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-ups. Gravity R&D will be offered an investment of $100,000 from Strands, Inc.

In addition to the winner, the Jury selected two runners up: the location-based recommender developer [...]

We are very excited to announce the five finalists for the first edition of the Strands $100K Call for Recommender Start-Ups.
As you know, Strands seeks to identify the best early-stage project in the area of recommendation technologies. Finalists are invited to present their projects during the ACM Conference on Recommender Systems (RecSys08) this October 23rd to 25th, 2008 in [...]

Back in March we announced the “Strands $100,000 Call for Recommender Start-Ups“, the Fastest Path to Fund your Project. Now that we are getting closer to the end of the submission period, next September 15th, we’d love to receive your proposal!
As you know, the Call is open to individuals or sole proprietors and privately held [...]